{"id":61438,"date":"2020-02-14T12:57:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T07:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=61438"},"modified":"2020-02-14T12:57:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T07:57:37","slug":"karachi-wb-green-areas-decreased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachi-wb-green-areas-decreased.html","title":{"rendered":"WB report reveals 4% decrease in Karachi\u2019s green areas between 2005 and 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: A World Bank (WB) report has revealed that Karachi\u2019s green areas decreased by four percent between 2005 and 2017, according to a news report. The findings have further disclosed that the city\u2019s urban environment and infrastructural provisions have not been able to keep up with the pace of its growth. To this effect, the urban extent in the central city has increased by eight percent; reducing the green areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/provide-easy-loans-to-reduce-house-shortage-world-bank.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Provide easy loans to reduce house shortage: World Bank (opens in a new tab)\">Provide easy loans to reduce house shortage: World Bank<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/world-bank-signs-financing-agreement-for-sindh-energy-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WB (opens in a new tab)\">WB<\/a> launched this report, titled \u2018The hidden wealth of cities: creating, financing, and managing public places\u2019, on Tuesday at the World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi. It revealed that the average number of street intersections in Karachi per square kilometre stood at 71.7, despite the United Nations Human Settlements Programme\u2019s benchmark being 100 street intersection per square kilometre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/agreement-signed-nehr-e-khayyam.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Agreement signed to develop Nehr-e-Khayyam Park in Karachi (opens in a new tab)\">Agreement signed to develop Nehr-e-Khayyam Park in Karachi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karachi\u2019s population increased from 10 million in 1998 to 16\nmillion in 2017, but infrastructural development did not increase at the same\npace during the said years. The report covered two cities, Karachi and Dhaka,\nand concluded that governments needed to invest in the creation and management\nof high-quality public spaces. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: A World Bank (WB) report has revealed that Karachi\u2019s green areas decreased by four percent between 2005 and 2017, according to a news report. The findings have further disclosed that the city\u2019s urban environment and infrastructural provisions have not been able to keep up with the pace of its growth. To this effect, the urban extent in the central city has increased by eight percent; reducing the green areas. Read: Provide easy loans to reduce house shortage: World Bank The WB launched this report, titled \u2018The hidden wealth of cities: creating, financing, and managing public places\u2019, on Tuesday at the World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi. It revealed that the average number of street intersections in Karachi per square kilometre stood at 71.7, despite the United Nations Human Settlements Programme\u2019s benchmark being 100 street intersection per square kilometre. Read: Agreement signed to develop Nehr-e-Khayyam Park in Karachi Karachi\u2019s population increased from 10 million in 1998 to 16 million in 2017, but infrastructural development did not increase at the same pace during the said years. The report covered two cities, Karachi and Dhaka, and concluded that governments needed to invest in the creation and management of high-quality public spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":61439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181,15019],"tags":[19324,19323,10378,19322],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"category-research-analysis","9":"tag-green-areas","10":"tag-karachi-urbanisation","11":"tag-urban-development","12":"tag-world-bank-report","13":"cat-15181-id","14":"cat-15019-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Karachi&#039;s greenery depleted between 2005 and 2017 - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A World Bank report showed that Karachi has been losing its greenery over time. 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